The telson is the posterior-most division of the body of an arthropod. It is not considered a true segment because it does not arise in the embryo from teloblast areas as do real segments.{cn|date=February 2014} It never carries any appendages, but a forked `tail` called the caudal furca may be present. The shape and composition of the telson di.....
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Tail portion of a crustacean
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last segment of a crustacean
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• (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.
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The most terminal segment of the abdomen. Forms the center part of the tail fan.
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(from the article `apterygote`) ...have abdominal structures that represent modified remnants of ancestral walking limbs. Many hexapods have cerci (sensory appendages) on the 11th ... ...presegmental region called the acron. In most crustaceans at least four somites fuse with the acron to form the head. At the posterior end of the ... ...
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The un-paired terminal abdominal segment of Crustacea, e.g. telson of anaspidean syncarids.
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Tel'son noun ;
plural Telsons . [ New Latin , from Greek ... a boundary, limit.]
(Zoology) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See
Thoracostraca .
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The last segment of the abdomen in many arthropods. May be flat and paddlelike, buttonlike, or long and spiny, as in the horseshoe crabs.
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The last segment of the abdomen in many arthropods. May be flat and paddlelike, buttonlike, or long and spiny, as in the horseshoe crabs.
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the stinger apparatus of the scorpion, consisting of a bulb-shaped vesicle and curved aculeus.
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the final segment of the metasoma. contains the venom glands and Aculeus.
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also known as a tail piece.
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